Pedro Pablo Ramirez

Pedro Pablo Ramirez (30 January 1884-12 May 1962) was President of Argentina from 7 June 1943 to 23 February 1944, succeeding Arturo Rawson and preceding Edelmiro Julian Farrell.

Biography
Pedro Pablo Ramirez was born in La Paz, Argentina in 1884. He graduated from the Military College in 1904, and he advanced in the ranks of the Argentine Army as a cavalry officer. In 1930, he assisted Jose Felix Uriburu in a fascist coup that deposed President Hipolito Yrigoyen, and he was sent to Rome to observe Benito Mussolini's army until his return in 1932. When Uriburu was voted out of office, Ramirez plotted the return of fascism to Argentina, organizing the Guardia Nacional. In 1942, he was appointed War Minister by President Ramon Castillo, only to be fired on 18 May 1943. Two weeks later, he assisted Arturo Rawson in carrying out the 1943 Argentine coup d'etat, and he became President two days after the coup, when Rawson resigned. Ramirez kept Argentina neutral during World War II, doing so at the behest of the British; this angered the United States, which cut off Lend-Lease aid. Ramirez's base while in office was a Catholic-Hispanic nationalist core, and his severing of relations with Nazi Germany and Japan angered pro-neutrality junta members. He was forced to resign on 23 February 1944, and he died in Buenos Aires in 1962.